Ceremony

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Ritual

Six witches holding hands

In order to initate the ceremony, one must first locates all the seven witches throughout the school. The ceremony can only (or at least, known to) be performed in a church-like chamber next to the Student Council Office, called the "Altar Room". To start the ceremony, the six witches join their hands along the magic circle written on the floor with the one who wishes in the middle alongside the seventh witch.

Once the ceremony begins, Time will flow very slowly around the two in the circle. In order to grant the wish, the wisher and the seventh witch kiss each other with their eyes closed. The ceremony then ends and the wish is granted.[2]

Limitation

Although the ritual itself does allow any wish to be granted, there are several limitations.

The wish that is granted seems to only apply to what the user knows as only Rika's set had their powers removed as Nancy's group had not.

The first group became the victims of the Amnesia Witch Rika Saionji's power, causing Haruma to lose his memories and Leona fled the school.[7] The second group managed to initiate the ceremony, however due to Sora Himekawa's plea to Nancy to erase everyone's memories for an unknown reason, Nancy instead wishes for everyone to be erase because it is impossible to do it with her own Amnesia Power. Due to that, she uses the ceremony as the last resort to wipe the memories of everyone about each other, leaving her alone to remember everything by herself.[8]

Plot

The second ceremony

In order to restore everyone's memories that were erased by Rika, Ryu holds the ceremony with all the seven witches of her group. However, once he hears about the tragic fate that befalled Rika and her successors, Ryu decides to wish for the Witch Power to be erased instead. While this wish is able to restore the memories of Toranosuke and the rest upto the point that he met Urara, the memories of him with Sora and the rest aren't restored. Worse, a new group of male witches are born to Suzaku Highschool instead.[9]

The third ceremony

Later, after hearing about his forgotten memories with Sora and Nancy, Ryu holds another ceremony in an attempt to recover them.[10] Although the wish is granted, portion of memories Ryu and the rest remains unrestored, causing the group to suspect that something else is preventing it from being restored.[11]